What are some tools you personally use for prep?
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
Obsidian is a must have.
Since sessions are frequently run over Discord, I use HammerTime to make sure everyone is seeing the same time being displayed.
I’ve been running Lancer for over a year, so all my tools are very particular in their uses. Lancer Map Creation Tool has been extremely handy in, well, creating maps and RetrogradeMinis in making up PC and NPC tokens. I also use this Pixel Art Furniture Pack for human-sized encounters, as its the only one I know that’s more focused on modern aesthetics instead of vaguely medieval fantasy.
Never heard of that Map Editor before, I’ll give it a look, thanks for the rec.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
I’ll add https://lettucemeet.com/ to the pile of scheduling sites.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
OneNote is my go to for my notes storage.
Archives of Nethys for PF2e is a must have for keeping track of things
Fantasy name generator website for random things. I really like using the groups and clans and town names. (Sorry I can’t link, I’m on my phone!)
Donjon website for all kinds of things. It’s more suited for 5e, but the 5 room dungeon generator is fantastic. Their city maps are pretty good too, and they break up demographics and notable NPCs and stuff too IIRC
Kobold Fight Club is a must have for encounters. Similarly Mimic Fight Club as well. One is for 5e, the other is for PF2e, but I’ve forgotten which is which.
Watabou for maps. That’s a super powerful tool and one that I use a lot.
Pinterest. As much as I hate it, it’s like the only place where there’s so much art cobbled together in one spot. It makes it very easy to find maps, NPCs, token borders. And if you’re smart about it and reverse image search, it’s easy to find the originals if you’re someone that wants to ask permission to use a certain artwork for an NPC
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
Notes, and links, etc: UpNote Fantastic app, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android; Markdown support.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
I didn’t read the article, but usually clear liquids and Gatorade with MiraLAX.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
I use LogSeq to organise all my notes. My group meets in-person, but I use Foundry to put background art, NPC portraits, etc. up on a screen, as well as to manage any NPC character sheets.
It may stretch the definition of ‘tool’ a bit, but the other thing I do is set up my laptop with four desktops/workspaces (notes, Foundry, music, rules) so I can switch between them with Ctrl+Windows+Left/Right. It’s a minor thing, but I am constantly surprised by how many people I run into who don’t know that you can do it. Switching desktops feels like much less friction to me than Alt+Tabbing between windows for some reason.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
out of curiosity, why do folks gravitate to Obsidian over something like Notion? Obsidian always struck me as a bit intimidating.
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As a markdown hater, I primarily use Trilium Notes for organizing my prep and taking session notes. I’ve built a digital GM screen with my players’ key stats that I keep in my main tab, and then each encounter for the session is loaded into tabs before the session starts.
I use Wonderdraft for my world maps, and pull most of my encounter maps from free ‘sample’ maps from map makers on Patreon (which I sketch out on my battle map in dry erase marker). For city/town/village maps, I use watabou’s Medieval Fantasy City Generator.
I pull most of my statblocks off of pf2easy. I also used pf2easy’s spellbook to help me make physical spell cards for my players.
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out of curiosity, why do folks gravitate to Obsidian over something like Notion? Obsidian always struck me as a bit intimidating.
It’s polished looking, and it has a lot of plugin support for TTRPG GMs.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
I wrote my own VTT and my own note management (basically private-wiki) system. I also wrote a thing that would record video from the VTT. Aside from that, Discord with a bot that plays music on demand and a bot that records audio from the voice chat.
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
The Goblin’s Notebook. It’s a great prep tool that allows you to break up all your notes based on what things are, allows custom relationships between objects, and allows what is displayed at any given time to change based on whether specific objects in your notes are relevant to the current chapter of your campaign. And that’s just scratching the surface of all the cool features. ~$3/mo thru patreon to fully unlock all features. I swear by it and I’ll probably never use another tool to keep all my notes organized as long as I’m GMing.
The custom connections are my favorite feature, and I use them a lot to inform the decisions any given entity in my world makes. Example of custom connections attached, lol.
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Obsidian is a must have.
Since sessions are frequently run over Discord, I use HammerTime to make sure everyone is seeing the same time being displayed.
I’ve been running Lancer for over a year, so all my tools are very particular in their uses. Lancer Map Creation Tool has been extremely handy in, well, creating maps and RetrogradeMinis in making up PC and NPC tokens. I also use this Pixel Art Furniture Pack for human-sized encounters, as its the only one I know that’s more focused on modern aesthetics instead of vaguely medieval fantasy.
Never heard of that Map Editor before, I’ll give it a look, thanks for the rec.
Oooh I had no idea about the Lancer map creator, that will be very useful. I’m decent at making maps manually but a shortcut for adding all the information like cover to a grid would speed things up substantially
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I use LogSeq to organise all my notes. My group meets in-person, but I use Foundry to put background art, NPC portraits, etc. up on a screen, as well as to manage any NPC character sheets.
It may stretch the definition of ‘tool’ a bit, but the other thing I do is set up my laptop with four desktops/workspaces (notes, Foundry, music, rules) so I can switch between them with Ctrl+Windows+Left/Right. It’s a minor thing, but I am constantly surprised by how many people I run into who don’t know that you can do it. Switching desktops feels like much less friction to me than Alt+Tabbing between windows for some reason.
Windows finally has persistent workspace order? Last time I was forced to try Windows out, there was no way to consistently switch to a workspace without looking at it to figure out which one it is
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
Logseq for notes and “Lazy GM” checklist, GIMP for carving out maps from the ones I have, Tiled to populate them. Tarot (I mean the cards, not some software) for populating initial background connections when I’m completely stuck
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As the title says, what’s your go-to when it comes to things like notes and maps. Personally, I like Obsidian and Tabletop RPG Map editor II from the lead dev of Dead Cells.
I also like https://when2meet.com/ for resolving scheduling conflicts.
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Windows finally has persistent workspace order? Last time I was forced to try Windows out, there was no way to consistently switch to a workspace without looking at it to figure out which one it is
Yeah, it works well enough. I haven’t had any issues, at least. On Linux, I prefer something along the lines of Workspace Matrix to get a proper two dimensional layout, but on Windows, the built-in workspaces have been at least sufficient for game night and don’t require any additional setup
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Obsidian is a must have.
Since sessions are frequently run over Discord, I use HammerTime to make sure everyone is seeing the same time being displayed.
I’ve been running Lancer for over a year, so all my tools are very particular in their uses. Lancer Map Creation Tool has been extremely handy in, well, creating maps and RetrogradeMinis in making up PC and NPC tokens. I also use this Pixel Art Furniture Pack for human-sized encounters, as its the only one I know that’s more focused on modern aesthetics instead of vaguely medieval fantasy.
Never heard of that Map Editor before, I’ll give it a look, thanks for the rec.
I personally like the lightweight option at https://r.3v.fi/discord-timestamps/
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out of curiosity, why do folks gravitate to Obsidian over something like Notion? Obsidian always struck me as a bit intimidating.
Everything’s a text file on your computer.
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I’ll add https://lettucemeet.com/ to the pile of scheduling sites.
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